Why are we still paying for our troops to protect countries around the world?
The other day I caught the tail end of an interview with Donald Trump. By the way he's considering running for president. I won't even dignify that thought. But he made a very good point. We have sent so many jobs and product development overseas, we owe the majority of our debt to the rest of the world. Because of our greedy corporations who supply us with goods, we hardly make anything in the United States anymore. But yet, we spend billions of dollars maintaining a military presence throughout the world, protecting oil wells, protecting borders, protecting other countries. Consider the following. We owe China $789 BILLION We owe Japan $746 billion We owe the UK $230 billion Hong Kong $142 billion Luxemburg $90 billion Switzerland $71.5 billion We owe South Korea $42 billion. This is only a partial list of all the countries we owe money to, THAT WE PROTECT WITH OUR MILITARY. Why do we owe South Korea $42.2 Billion when we've been protecting their border for over 60 YEARS? We saved the Brits during WWII and Grenada. We maintained a military presence throughout th entire Cold War in almost every country, at our own cost. When there are disasters in the United States, how many countries sent their navy and military plus food, water and supplies to assist in recovery? How many countries helped dig out the Twin Towers when we lost 3,200 people on that horrible day? Who thinks along with me that we should pass all the military bases back to the countries they're in, and for a change, help the rest of the world protect themselves? Who thinks the United States should start spending all that military protection money on taking care of itself? And, if we decide not to pull out of all these countries our military presence, who believes that we should START SENDING ALL THESE COUNTRIES IOU's FOR PROTECTION SERVICES Retroactive all the way back to World War II? During World War II China was so poor if we hadn't gone in and protected them they would all be Japanese now. And yet we owe them the most money of any country. I'm sick and tired of our country being the big protector of the world while we are losing our soul to the world by owing them Trillions of dollars, yet we still pay out billions to protect them! If I were President, I would find a way to write out invoices to every country we owe money to and charge them for our military services over the last 60 years, plus interest. Then I would sell them back all the military bases we built over the last 60 years throughout the world and have them pay us in full. Maybe this way we could get some of these ridiculous debts reduced and elminated so we can get our country back to being healthy and productive. God bless America, our military, and our future generations.
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I basically agree with you: Some of our foreign military bases are for our own good as well because it is our first line of defense in case of war. Others we should bill them for our services or send Blackwater in to do the job.. In Iraq we should have take the full price of the war out in oil. But NO - we the tax payers rebuilt Iraq at our own expense. Our govts are out of control. We are in Libya and if the rebels win then they should pay 100% of the cost of this war. IN OIL. P
